[MyAppleMenu] Jul 8, 2003

Tue Jul 8 21:05:01 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Jul 8, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Names Tevanian Chief Software Technology Officer (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/08/tevanian/>
Apple on Tuesday announced the promotion of Avadis "Avie" Tevanian Jr., PhD, to the position of chief software officer. Tevanian will now focus on setting company-wide software technology directions, according to Apple.

MyAppleMenu : News
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QTVR Brings Aviation History To Life (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/08/qtvr/>
Dennis Biela of LightSpeed Media and David Palermo of WorldVR have teamed up to record 200 aircraft and 128 space artifacts using high resolution digital photography and QuickTime VR.

Ambrosia Releases Free WireTap Audio Utility (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/08/wiretap/>
WireTap enables users to record any audio playing on the Mac -- whether it's an audio stream from an Internet radio station, sound from DVD Player, game audio, iChat AV conversations, or more.

Laptop Computers For Students (Lawrence Keech, Washington Daily News)
<http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2003/07/08/news/news03.txt>
"We could be on the cuting edge of technology... We could provide that to the students and get them the access."

G5 To Make First Public Appearance At Macworld CreativePro (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/07/08/g5creative/>

Apple 'Locks Out' Software Vendors (May Wong, Associated Press)
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6255832.htm>
Intentionally or not, "Apple is pursuing a strategy that locks out their third-party software vendors."

Watson Homes In On Panther (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6562>
The new version adds compatibility with the upcoming OS X 10.3 release, and includes several enhancements and bug fixes.

Reader Follows Up On Scotia Bank Issue (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20047>
"Safari browser was removed from web services due to security reasons."

Apple To Open Store In Santa Monica On Friday (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/20050>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Will Apple's iApp Movement Hurt Users? (Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/macnetjournal/July2003.html#note_1349>

Will Apple Do TV? (Michael Rogers, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/767146.asp?0si=->
I suspect [Steve Jobs'] probably not a big television fan. And of course one of the wonderful and dangerous things about Apple is that Steve's personal ikes and dislikes tend strongly to color their products.

Test Leaves Sour Taste (John Taschek, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1185274,00.asp>
Apple is wrong to obscure a good story with a benchmark test that at best will be irrelevant three months from now.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Hooked By The iBook (Jeff Campbell, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/first/03/0708.html>

Apple Puts The Eye In IM (Peter Lewis, Fortune)
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/peterlewis/0,15704,462483,00.html>
Crossing video with AOL Instant Messenger is a winner. Better start wearing clothes when working from home.

Apple's Mac Gets Addictive Over Time (Mark Kellner, Washington Times)
<http://washingtontimes.com/technology/20030707-101136-9825r.htm>
During the past several weeks, I have discovered even more reasons for keeping a Mac as my primary computer.

Macally iceKey Slim USB Keyboard (Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/misc/03/0707.html>
If you like short-travel and (relatively) light touch keyboard action, you will probably be pleased with the feel of this 'board.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft To Give Its Employees Stock Instead Of Options (John Markoff and David Leonhardt, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/business/08CND-SOFT.html?ex=1373083200&en=c6ce775852a245c4&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND>
The announcement is the clearest sign yet that stock options have lost some of the cachet they held just a few years ago and are now seen among many people as a prime example of 1990's excess in corporate America.

Microsot Antitrust Case Takes Linux Twist (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1023497.html>
The Massachusetts attorney general's office is investigating whether Microsoft tried to squash Linux in violation of the consent decree settling the company's landmark antitrust case.

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Unix: Far From Legacy, But Far More Challenged (Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,82757,00.html>
With Windows and Linux becoming increasingly attractive options in the data center, IT managers have good reason to reassess their Unix strategies.

Going Wireless In The Wilderness (Charles Mandel, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59546,00.html>
Wi-Fi networks, fairly common in North America's urban centers, have extended their habitat far into Canada's frozen north.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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In Blair We Trust (Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/opinion/08KRIS.html>
One of the saddest results of our war in Iraq is that it may finish off Tony Blair before Saddam Hussein.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Search For Life Out There Gains Respect, Bit By Bit (Dennis Overbye, New York TImes)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/science/space/08SETI.html>
Years after Congress ordered NASA to pull the plug on a survey looking for alien radio signals from the stars, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, as it is known to aficionados, seems to have gradually achieved a modicum of respect in the halls of Washington.

How Language Stunts Creativity (Brad Evenson, National Post)
<http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id=C37BFDB8-575C-4551-9BAF-59175119F4A8>
As the brain dies, new artistry is born.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Gertrude Stein Rocks (Jim Lewis, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2085209/>
Should great poems be seen and not heard?

Sequels Are Fish Food (Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/goldstein/cl-et-gold8jul08.story>
Much-hypted retreads, lacking individuality, are in the box-office tank, gobbled up by the clever "Finding Nemo" and other inventive films.

Opposites Attract? Not In Real Life (Natalie Angier, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/health/psychology/08ATTR.html>
As a new report demonstrates with the no-nonsense zing of the phrase "I do," humans often seek in a spouse the sort of person they know best: themselves.

Same Old Story: Awful Or Odd (Sarah Johnson, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-737904,00.html>
Once upon a time, elderly people in children's books were either evil or eccentric, and not much has changed.

Subway Cars' Last Stop: Under Sea, Not Ground (Robert Hanley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/04/nyregion/04REEF.html>
An old New York City subway car was pushed into the ocean Thursday off Cape May, N.J. A total of 50 cars were added to an artificial reef.

He And She: What's The Real Difference? (Clive Thompson, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/187/focus/He_and_she_What_s_the_real_difference_+.shtml>
According to a team of computer scientists, we give away our gender in our writing style.

Textbook Writing 101 (M. Garrett Bauman, Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i43/43b00501.htm>
Most professors think you need a grat idea for a textbook to put your stamp on the discipline -- a sparkling, cutting-edge theme. Nothing could be further from the truth.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Twins Die After Separation Surgery (CNN)
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/07/08/conjoined.twins/index.html>
Two conjoined adult Iranian twins have died following unprecedented surgery to separate them, officials at Singapore's Raffles Hospital say.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Wireless-Fidelity Gaining Ground In Tech-Savvy Singapore (Sai Man, Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030707/15/3cd40.html>

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